Understanding MindBrain

 
 
Random Article


 
Latest Posts
 

Dream content: Individual and generic aspects

 

 
Overview
 

 
Summary
 
 
 
 
 


 


Bottom Line

Dream reports were collected from normal subjects in an effort to determine the degree to which dream reports can be used to identify individual dreamers. Judges were asked to group the reports by their authors. The judges scored the reports correctly at chance levels. This finding indicated that dreams may be at least as much […]

0
Posted October 18, 2007 by thomasr

 
Full Article
 
 

Dream reports were collected from normal subjects in an effort to determine the degree to which dream reports can be used to identify individual dreamers. Judges were asked to group the reports by their authors. The judges scored the reports correctly at chance levels. This finding indicated that dreams may be at least as much like each other as they are the signature of individual dreamers. Our results suggest that dream reports cannot be used to identify the individuals who produced them when identifiers like names and gender of friends and family members are removed from the dream report. In addition to using dreams to learn about an individual, we must look at dreams as telling us about important common or generic aspects of human consciousness.next term

Allan Hobson and David Kahn in press article in Consciousness & Cognition


thomasr

 


0 Comments



Be the first to comment!


Leave a Response